How do I use cygwin behind the corporate firewall

Question

I\'m in a Microsoft IE environment, but I want to use cygwin for a number of quick scripting tasks.

How would I configure it to use my windows proxy information? Ru

Answer 1

If I just use what Vlax and Mohsen Nosratinia suggested (export http_proxy=http://yourusername:yourpassword@host:port/), it will only work half of the programs (some of the installs will work but not all) for my company.

By adding another line it will work for all (maybe most) at least in my situation.

export http_proxy=http://yourusername:yourpassword@host:port/
export https_proxy=$http_proxy